]]>http://docs.wesfryer.com/?feed=rss2&p=330Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharinghttp://docs.wesfryer.com/?p=27
http://docs.wesfryer.com/?p=27#respondSun, 31 Jul 2011 05:22:34 +0000http://docs.wesfryer.com/?p=27“Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing” (July 2011) by Wesley Fryer is available in 3 eBook formats and as a paperback.

Book Description

We need to play with media to become more effective communicators. This book was written to inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Although written primarily for educators, anyone who is interested in learning more about digital communication will learn something new from this book. As children, we learn to progressively make sense of our confusing world through play. The same dynamics apply to us as adults communicating with new and different media forms.

]]>http://docs.wesfryer.com/?feed=rss2&p=270American POWs in Southeast Asia and the Violation of a National Ethichttp://docs.wesfryer.com/?p=136
http://docs.wesfryer.com/?p=136#respondMon, 16 Dec 1991 03:19:51 +0000http://docs.wesfryer.com/?p=136This document is research paper prepared for 1991 course requirements at the US Air Force Academy. Access it on: wesfryer.com/powmia/powpaper.html

The introduction reads:

One of the most famous quotations in the history of the United States was stated by President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address, when he encouraged all Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” In the years which followed Kennedy’s inauguration, as the United States became more deeply involved in the war in Indochina, many Americans answered their nation’s call to duty. Inevitably, many of the men who served the United States in Southeast Asia became prisoners of war (POWs). Although 591 American POWs were repatriated to the United States in February 1973, some POWs were left behind (Tighe Report 33). The failure of the U.S. government to secure the return of American servicemen remaining in captivity in Southeast Asia after February 1973 is a continuing violation of a national ethic that has developed historically, that holds “the war is not over until all the men are back.” American servicemen certainly went to fight in Southeast Asia prepared to suffer hardship in battle, but they could not have been prepared to be abandoned by the country that sent them there. The betrayal of American POWs in Southeast Asia is one of the darkest pages of American history yet written, and suggests that the conscience of our nation has been violated in addition to the implicit promise made to U.S. servicemen by the government to bring them all home at the end of the war.